Tens of thousands of air travelers need to have more patience. The tariff-conflict at the Scandinavian Airline is deadlocked talks with the unions had been canceled on Friday.
The pilot strike at the airline company SAS will run this Monday and Tuesday had a significant impact. Overall, would have to be deleted in the next two days, more than 1200 flights, the company said. The 110,000 travelers were affected.
More than 1400 pilots since Friday in the strike. Both domestic flights as well as European Connections and long-haul flights accounted for. So far, nearly 280,000 travelers are affected, according to information from SAS since the strike beginning.
“Seven weekends at the track”
The pilots are protesting against the, in their view, increasingly poor working conditions. In addition, you can ask for more money. The Swedish employers ‘ Association refers to the “already high” average salaries of the equivalent of well-8700 Euro a month. A further increase of 13 per cent could not be true, therefore.
A lot of Red: the display Board at the airport Stockholm/Arlanda
The unions stressed that their members were of good working conditions is even more important than the height of the content. Many SAS pilots have “no control” over where and how long they were in use. In the worst case, threaten them, seven weekends to piece of work.
SAS was originated in 1946 as a merger of the Danish Det Danske luftfartsmuseum selskab, the Swedish Svensk Intercontinental air traffic and the Norwegian Det Norske Luftfartselskap. The airline is part of the Lufthansa co-founded Star Alliance. SAS supports numerous Connections in Europe, but also inter-continental flights.
jj/AR (dpa, rtr)